GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| bullion | gold or silver considered as so much metal |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |